Cascading Mentoring

A top-down process of mentoring allows people at each level of the organization develop insight for themselves and others by sharing their knowledge and experience with those below. Particular attention needs to be paid to ensuring that the mentoring process is employed rather than instruction. Since mentoring is usually best when the mentor and mentoree are not in a direct line of authority, this type of mentoring will sometimes be combined with mentoring round-tables, group mentoring and/or mentoring circles.